Suggested Further Readings

Theme 1: Roles and Responsibilities for Shelter Operations

Seeking Justice: Cemetery Preservation for Current and Future Generations

Descendants of Olivewood. (n.d.) Welcome to Descendants of Olivewood Cemetery. https://www.descendantsofolivewood.org/

Grave Danger: Historic Olivewood Cemetery in need of drainage improvements. (2021, November 3). The Leader. https://www.theleadernews.com/community/historic-olivewood-cemetery-in-need-of-drainage-improvements/article_b91d51c8-3ce4-11ec-bcdb-83357df72e5a.html

National Trust for Historic Preservation. (2024, May 23). Strong wind storm causes extensive damage to Olivewood Cemetery in Houston, Texas. National Trust for Historic Preservation. https://savingplaces.org/americas-most-endangered-historic-places/updates/olivewood-cemetery-may-2024-storm-damage

Slovak, B. (2024, July 23). Volunteers step in to clean up historic Houston cemetery damaged by Hurricane Beryl. ABC13 KTRK. https://abc13.com/post/hurricane-beryls-damage-houstons-olivewood-cemetery-sees-cleanup/15086402/

Blanks, J. (2023). Gone But Not Forgotten: Saving Our Cemeteries From Disaster. Research Counts, 2(25). Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder. https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts/gone-but-not-forgotten-saving-our-cemeteries-from-disaster

Blanks, J., Abuabara, A., Roberts, A., & Semien, J. (2021). Preservation at the intersections: Patterns of disproportionate multihazard risk and vulnerability in Louisiana’s historic African American cemeteries. Environmental Justice, 14(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2020.0

Lovekamp, B., Foster, G., & Di Naso, S. (2016, August 31). Preserving the dead: Cemetery preservation and disaster planning The Natural Hazards Observer XL(6). https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/preserving-the-dead-cemetery-preservation-and-disaster-planning

Colwell, C. (2025, October 22). The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States. The Conversation(6). https://theconversation.com/the-disgraceful-history-of-erasing-black-cemeteries-in-the-united-states-264864

Balancing Supply and Demand: Federal Tools to Understand and Prepare for Water Scarcity

Oyedele, E. (2026). Disappearing Groundwater: Unequal Consequences in the Colorado River Basin. [Special Collection on Equity and Inclusion in Disaster]. Research Counts, 6(SC9). Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder. https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts/disappearing-groundwater-unequal-consequences-in-the-colorado-river-basin

Stets, E. G., Cashman, M. J., Miller, O. L., & Powlen, K. A. (2025). Integrated water availability in the conterminous United States, 2010–20 (Professional Paper 1894–F). U.S. Geological Survey https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1894f

U.S. Geological Survey. (n.d.). National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion. U.S. Department of the Interior https://water.usgs.gov/nwaa-data/

Konikow, L. F. (2014). Long-term groundwater depletion in the United States. Groundwater, 53(1), 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12306

Medalie, L., Galanter, A. E., Martinez, A. J., Archer, A. A., Luukkonen, C. L., Harris, M. A., & Haynes, J. V. (2025). Water use across the conterminous United States, water years 2010–20 (Professional Paper no. 1894–D). U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1894D

Stets, E. G., Cashman, M. J., Miller, O., Powlen, K. A., Martinez, A. J., Padilla, J., & Archer, A. A. (2026). Local water use and climate variability drive water stress and alter ecological flows over the conterminous United States. Environmental Research: Water, 2(2), Article 025001. https://doi.org/10.1088/3033-4942/ae4d7e

Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program. (2024). CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health/php/svi/svi-data-documentation-download.html

Yellow Horse, A. J., Yang, T.-C., & Huyser, K. R. (2021). Structural inequalities established the architecture for COVID-19 pandemic among Native Americans in Arizona: A geographically weighted regression perspective. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 9, 165-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00940-2

Meehan, K., Jurjevich, J. R., Chun, N. M. J. W., & Sherrill, J. (2020). Geographies of insecure water access and the housing–water nexus in US cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(46) 28700–28707. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007361117

National Integrated Drought Information System. (n.d.). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://www.drought.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey. (n.d.). National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion. U.S. Department of the Interior. https://water.usgs.gov/nwaa-data/

Falling Space Debris: An Underestimated Threat to Under Resourced Emergency Management Agencies

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. (2026). Annual number of objects launched into space – UNOOSA [Data set]. Our World in Data. https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260518-083815/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space.html

Wright, E., Boley, A., & Byers, M. (2025). Airspace closures due to reentering space objects. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 2966 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84001-2

Louis‐Charles, H. M., Kalokoh, A., Torres, J., & Jamieson, T. (2023). Emergency management and the final frontier: Preparing local communities for falling space debris. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 14(3), 247–266. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12266

Space debris. (n.d.). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. https://www.nasa.gov/headquarters/library/find/bibliographies/space-debris/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (n.d.). The Dawn of the Space Age. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/index.html

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. (1971). Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects. United Nations. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introliability-convention.html

Hines, R. L. (2025, November 13). Space debris struck a Chinese spacecraft – How the incident could be a wake-up call for international collaboration. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAI.rf4q5pyeg

Prada, L. (2025, October 22). Pilot injured after mystery object from ‘space’ smashes into commercial plane. VICE. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pilot-injured-after-mystery-object-from-space-smashes-into-commercial-plane/

Mitigation methods for launch vehicle upper stages on the creation of orbital debris; withdrawal. (2026, January 15). Federal Register.

Vogell, H. (2026, March 12). Amid crowded skies, FAA kills rule aimed at regulating space junk. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/faa-trump-space-junk-safety-spacex-rockets

Louis-Charles, H., Teron, L., Douglas-Glenn, N. E., & Kalokoh, A. (2023). Unmasking disaster disparities and inequality in local emergency management. In Harper-Anderson, E. L., Albanese, J. S., & Gooden, S. T. (Eds.), Racial Equity, COVID-19, and Public Policy.Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003286967-2

Times of India Science Desk. (2026, Feburary 20). First wooden satellite developed by Japan aims to reduce space debris and prevent it from re-entering Earth. The Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/first-wooden-satellite-developed-by-japan-aims-to-reduce-space-debris-and-prevent-it-from-re-entering-earth/articleshow/128597178.cms

Mandrekar, N. D. (2026). Robotic arm with adaptive grasper for chaser satellites to remove space debris from lower earth orbit (LEO). Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 13(1), 73–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsse.2026.01.005

Disappearing Groundwater: Unequal Consequences in the Colorado River Basin

Famiglietti, J. S., & Ferguson, G. (2021). The hidden crisis beneath our feet. Science, 372(6540), 344–345. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abh2867

Oyedele, E. (2024). Esther Oyedele: Looking from space to understand what’s beneath our feet. Center for Communicating Science, Virginia Tech. https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu/research-stories/Esther_Oyedele.html

James, I. & O’Dell, R. (2019, December 5). Megafarms and deeper wells are draining the water beneath rural Arizona – quietly, irreversibly. The Arizona Republic. https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2019/12/05/unregulated-pumping-arizona-groundwater-dry-wells/2425078001/

Lee, J. & Marsh, B. (2022, August 26). Colorado River Basin tribes work to protect their water rights. High Country News. https://www.hcn.org/articles/colorado-river-basin-tribes-work-to-protect-their-water-rights/

Nargi, L. (2024, January 23). ‘It smells bad’: the US farmworkers grappling with unsafe water at home. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/dehydration-farm-workers-california-safe-drinking-water

Drage, J. (2022). ‘It smells bad’: the US farmworkers grappling with unsafe water at home. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/dehydration-farm-workers-california-safe-drinking-water

Drage, J. (2022). Vulnerability to groundwater level declines. In Domestic Wells– Introduction and Overview. The Groundwater Project. https://books.gw-project.org/domestic-wells-introduction-and-overview/chapter/vulnerability-to-groundwater-level-declines/

Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (n.d.). Gravity recovery and climate experiment follow-on (GRACE-FO). National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/gravity-recovery-and-climate-experiment-follow-on-grace-fo/

Abdelmohsen, K., Famiglietti, J. S., Ao, Y. Z., Mohajer, B., & Chandanpurkar, H. A. (2025). Declining freshwater availability in the Colorado River basin threatens sustainability of its critical groundwater supplies. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, Article e2025GL115593. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593

Sharma, S. (2025, August 7). Impacts of Colorado River water shortages on agriculture in Central Arizona. Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Arizona State University. https://azwaterinnovation.asu.edu/impacts-colorado-river-water-shortages-agriculture-central-arizona

Data Matters: The Importance of Public Information and Youth Disaster Mental Health Research

Thiery, W., Lange, S., Rogelj, J., Schleussner, C.-F., Gudmundsson, L., Seneviratne, S. I., Andrijevic, M., Frieler, K., Emanuel, K., Geiger, T., Bresch, D. N., Zhao, F., … Wada, Y. (2021). Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes. Science, 374(6564), 158–160. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi7339

Peek, L., Abramson, D. M., Cox, R. S., Fothergill, A., & Tobin, J. (2018). Children and disasters. In H. Rodríguez, W. Donner, & J. E. Trainor (Eds.), Handbook of Disaster Research (pp. 243–262). Springer.